Senior Financial Analyst - Prolacta Bioscience

Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience’s mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Finance team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our Senior Financial Analyst.  This role work on a variety of financial projects to help give meaningful insights to key stakeholders within the Company.

Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?

We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 100,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world’s leading hospital provider of 100% human milk– based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.

For more information, please visit www.prolacta.com

How you will contribute

This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by…

• Core responsibility is supporting the Operations, Quality, Milk Resourcing and Supply Chain teams.
• Ownership of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and Standard Costing.
• Become the COGS subject matter expert. Understand and communicate the trends and levers to help drive business decisions.
• Develop the quarterly forecasts, annual budget and 5-year plan for assigned divisions.
• Maintain and develop all financial models related to Standard Costing by collaborating with business partners and refining assumptions.
• Prepare weekly/monthly/quarterly internal reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Prepare annual standard cost reporting and set up imports including supporting the Bill of Materials (BOM) process for the Accounting team.
• Perform monthly cost analyses comparing actual to standard variance for direct materials price and usage, direct labor, and overhead spending.
• Develop, maintain and distribute ad-hoc reports and financials models as needed.
• Perform analysis of cost trends to provide management with reports comparing cost and profitability of product lines.
• Budget capital, analyze expenditures, track project updates, maintain capital reporting systems.
• Communicate observations and improvements through analytics and thoughtful interpretation of findings.
• Support business leaders to derive business insights from data and translate into actionable business recommendations.
• Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity of documents, information, and interactions.

What you bring to the role

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or other Business related degree
• 5 years minimum related experience
• CPA/MBA preferred
• Understands core accounting concepts
• Proficient in Excel
• Experience in Workday Adaptive Planning or similar forecasting tool preferred

How Prolacta benefits you

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage starting on your first day, to discretionary stock options and 401(k) match, we value our employees’ health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.

What else do you need to know

Location: Duarte, CA (remote with occasional “in office” days required). Must be willing to be “on camera” at all meetings.

Schedule: Monday – Friday 8am to 5pm

Travel: Minimal

FLSA: Exempt

Depending on your residential location certain laws might regulate the way Prolacta manages applicant data. California Residents, please review our Privacy Notice for California Employees and Job Applicants for further information, this can be found on Prolacta.com on www.prolacta.com . By submitting your application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand the above notice.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.

EEO Statement

“Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.” Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status